been diagnosed with cancer and is postponing public duties. he left the hospital a week ago after treatment for an enlarged prostate. joining us is nbc s molly hunter. i understand the palace has just released a statement. what are they saying? chris, that s right. we just got the statement. i m just reading it for the first time as well. the big thing to understand, as you know, we covered the king s health scare last week which was really presented as a routine procedure. he was only in the hospital for three nights. he was in the london clinic right here in central london. right now we have the statement from buckingham palace. it says during the king s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement of owes that s what we knew. we knew he had gone into the hospital for what he and the palace called a routine procedure. a separate issue of concern was noted. subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer. this is coming directly from buckingham pa
tonight, the 2024 primary is officially underway. last hour in south carolina, the first democratic contest in the nation closed, president joe biden easily secured a victory there, flowing his rival out of the water. all eyes are on the number of down the a total of 55 are up. those will be awarded remember of course that they need a total of 2000 to capture the democratic nomination. a short time ago the president issued a statement thanking the voters of south carolina saying in part quote, in 2020 it was south carolina who proved p- breaking news coming out of the middle east in the united states launched strikes targeting the cuties in yemen, they hit 36 targets across the country. an official told nbc news today that the strikes in yemen and yesterday s attacks on more than 85 targets linked to iranian-backed militias in iraq and syria are not related. let s go back to politics, and the primary results we re getting out of south carolina. msnbc correspondent trema
i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for joining us. new today, iraq is now summoning a top u.s. diplomatic official in protest of a barrage of punishing u.s. air strikes in the middle east. the u.s. says those strikes hit 85 targets linked to iran s islamic revolutionary guard quds force and affiliated militia groups in iraq and syria. the strikes a response to a drone attack in jordan which killed three american soldiers on sunday. iraq is claiming the explosions that just happened involving the u.s. killing 16 people, including civilians. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin says the strikes are just the beginning of the u.s. response. iran says the u.s. has made a strategic mistake, while iraq and syria say the u.s. actions could inflame more conflict in the region. cnn has teams around the globe covering all of these developments. let s go first to cnn s ben wedeman in jordan. ben, these strikes were sudden, devastating. how are officials on the ground? how are thos
on this hour of ayman, how a devastating article has put michigan city on high alert. the mayor is here to tell you what his city is really like, and why he decided to snub a presidential visit. also tonight, a look at the first hundred days of speaker johnson as he battles the senate on sending aid to israel. new reporting on the speakers ties to a group that justifies biblical slavery. next stop, nevada. ahead of caucus day, we unpack the confusion around the state s presidential nominating process. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s do it. dear born michigan s high home to the largest mcglynn population in the country. there and the subsequent crisis, as many people have personal ties and connections to the region. now the mayor of dearborn, abdullah hammoud is ramping up enforcement in after a scathing op-ed was published on friday, entitled, welcome to dearborn, america s jihad capital. the mayor says that the article is already led to a alarming increase in islamop
. good to be with you. i m katy tur. the southern border is a mess, a record number of migrants have been crossing, finding overwhelmed and under staffed processing centers, forcing a catch and release program that republican lawmakers decry as not just sloppy but imminently dangerous to national security. terrorists and drug dealers are flooding through the border, they claim. biden s government isn t doing enough to stop this. well, much of the gop rhetoric can be extreme. bipartisan politicians and president biden himself can see the situation along the border is untenable. which is why a trio of lawmakers, one democrat, one republican, and one independent got together to find a solution, one that would address both sides concerns and finally do something to update policy that has been broken for decades. on asylum, the bill raises the bar to claim credible fear, ends catch and release, instead, migrants crossing through a lawful port of entry will enter the u.s. under f